The Tory government's divisions over Brexit can only be sharpened by Donald Trump's election to president of the US. Theresa May's woes go deep and won't easily be solved, writes Alan Gibson.
Sally Campbell and Julie Sherry spoke to fast food workers about organising in an industry that is notorious for its poor conditions, widespread zero-hours contracts and poverty pay.
Will Trump return to the go-it-alone imperialism of the Bush years, asks Simon Assaf
Socialist Review contributors pick their literary and cultural highlights of 2016.
The third part of our series on the IWW looks at the victorious battle to unionise steel — an industry dominated by migrant workers.
As we go to press, thousands of refugees are being herded out of the Calais “Jungle” camp and transported to other parts of France. Amid harrowing scenes, we have seen people rightly resisting this forced relocation, riot police teargassing refugees, and unaccompanied children being left to wander alone — only to find that, if they...
A terrifying choice between two unpopular options confronts voters in the US this month. When Barack Obama was elected in 2008 there were high hopes for what he could achieve. Eight years on the excitement was encapsulated in Bernie Sanders’ left wing challenge for the Democratic nomination. Since losing that battle, Sanders has said that...
A summit meeting in London last month to plan next steps against the Housing and Planning Act drew 250 people in a serious and determined mood. They included council, housing association, co-op and private tenants, union members and several local councillors. Among them was the elected mayor of Hackney, Philip Glanville, who repeated his council’s...
The Polish government is terrified of women. Its efforts to introduce a total abortion ban have created a massive backlash with hundreds of thousands of people, mainly young women, demonstrating, taking days off and wearing black at school, college or work. The draft law had proposed a prison term of up to five years for...
The National Libraries, Museums and Galleries demonstration on 5 November will bring together campaigns in defence of cultural services that have been springing up across the country. Outside my local library last Friday morning, just before it opened at 10am, was a queue of over 20 visitors. There were parents and their children coming in...
The nation state with distinct borders is a recent idea, tied up with the development of capitalism. It is workers and the poor who suffer at its edges, writes Phil Marfleet.
Héctor Sierra explains a tumultuous year in the Spanish state as the maneuverings of the right in the Socialist Party forced out leader Pedro Sánchez for wanting to work with left wing Podemos.
